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[desh]

• Minor league baseball is fun. Y'all should go. No matter where you live, if you're in the US, you're probably within a couple dozen miles of a team. This season is basically over, but next spring, go check it out.
  
  
• I divide my music-listening life into 4 phases:
  
  1. Pre-1995: I knew basically nothing about music. (I listened to Queen and Trout Fishing in America.)
  2. 1995-1999: I loved pop music. (I listened to Hootie and the Blowfish, Live, and one-offs like The Cardigans. Later in this period, I listened to a lot of classic rock.)
  3. 1999-2004: The Dark Ages. Pop music sucked and I had nothing else. (I don't know what I listened to then. Probably just classic rock.)
  4. 2004-2008: I discovered XPN, and discovered that Adult Album Alternative music wasn't too cool or esoteric for me. (I listened to The Decemberists, The Hold Steady, and so on.)
  
  I mention this because in phase 2, VH1 and MTV (in that order) were very important to me. I got a lot of my music from them. MTV started a show called Total Request toward the end of that period, a low-budget show with a boring set and a daily countdown. But I liked it. It later became became TRL. And this week, MTV announced that TRL is being cancelled, and with it, probably the last vestiges of music videos on Music Video Television. End of an era.
  
  Also, here are 7 stars who wouldn't be allowed on MTV anymore.
  
  
• Neat "how well do you see color?" quiz. I scored a 4 (lower is better), with all of my misses in the area where blue meets green. This might explain why I call some colors blueish when others call them greenish.

That's all for now. How are you?

Comments

[nnaylime.livejournal.com]

Wow! I got an 8 on that test . . . w/ blues & greens also being my downfall. I was actually kinda glum on that score until I saw that the highest in my age range was 1749 or thereabouts. It's a pretty broad scale :-)

[janinedog]

I got 0 on that color vision test...perfect color vision. Except now my eyes hurt.

[desh]

Superpowers don't come without drawbacks!

[janinedog]

Indeed!

[myq.livejournal.com]

I got an awesome 180. I thought every male in our family was awful with colors?

[desh]

Everyone but me, since that stuff is inherited through the mother.

[curlybopbop.livejournal.com]

Dude! I scored 179. You have totally free rights to tell me what colors things are. That's terrible.

[coralrockstar.livejournal.com]

i got a 12 =/
i was hoping for something lower...

i blame my monitor.

[groovyjew.livejournal.com]

I got a 34. I also blame my monitor, though. Or at least, I think I do.

how well do you see color?

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

i got a 4 as well, in the green-blue spectrum. but they're much more towards the left (green) side where i'd still call things "green" rather than questioning whether they should be called blue-greenish.

i think i blame my monitor. i should try it on my CRT and see whether it makes a difference.